Sorry fella.

We lost two houses we bid on before we got this one, Radar. Don't worry, there will be a place as good (if not better!) out there for you.

This was our second lost one. We wanted this one so bad, I really can't explain it. It's within walking distance to my brother's house. It's in a REALLY great neighborhood. It's close to everything. It has a HUGE amount of upgrades that were installed fairly recently.

It's move-in ready and most houses at this price are not in LA.

It did have the pool issue though.

I'm sorry you didn't get the house Radar. It's always a big blow when things like that happen. You have to think that something better is just around the corner though.

Stay positive. You never know what will happen.

Ugggh. Escrow is soul-destroying.

We're trying to lock down our mortgage. Apparently everybody who writes mortgages still thinks that the only good borrowers are company men, with a single W2 source of income, one savings account with $950,000 in it, and impeccable tax records for the last 19 years.

The sheer volume of paperwork involved in getting a mortgage is staggering, especially when your income sources include self-employed musician, small business owner (wife's floral design business), a University where 20% of your income is from "overload" teaching assignments that you do every year but aren't part of your base contract pay, and the winner, royalty income from previously published music (they love that one).

Somebody needs to simplify this process.

Call Nancy.:eyebrow:

I wish I was complaining about doing the papers for the escrow company. :(

Who is Nancy?

Sorry, bro.

I'm not intending to keep prodding the wound, but I thought I would keep all of our real estate process stuff going on this same thread.

Pelosi

4.875%

Holy crap, we locked our loan this week, and it's at 4.875. That just seems like free money to me. Hell, a year ago our savings account was making almost that much!

For those who are interested, here are a few better pics of the house:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3495/...9cb1c69ed1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/...a6b648a478.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3344/...4e32bd033c.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/...baa3c631ac.jpg

Holy Hell that's a nice house

Beautiful, smooth. I am so glad it is working out so well for you.

wow!